US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Method, an apparatus and a computer program product for implementing gradual decoding refresh" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,579, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method, an apparatus and a computer program product for implementing gradual decoding refresh" was invented by Miska Matias Hannuksela (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments relate to a method comprising receiving an encoded video comprising a GDR picture and recovering pictures following the GDR picture in decoding order; decoding information that a slice-based GDR is in use, wherein each of the GDR picture and the recovering pictures comprises a first set of slices comprising a clean area and a second set of slices comprisin...